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Childhood Obesity and Child Abuse

Someone explain to me why giving your child a chronic and preventable illness isn't child abuse:The number of children who take medication for chronic diseases has jumped dramatically, another troubling sign that many of the youngest Americans are struggling with obesity, doctors say.The number of children who take pills for type 2 diabetes ? the kind that's closely linked to obesity ? more than doubled from 2002 to 2005, to a rate of six out of 10,000 children. That suggests that at least 23,000 privately insured children in the USA are now taking diabetes medications, according to authors of the new study in today's Pediatrics.Punching a child is abuse.  But giving them a lifetime of health problems is not? 

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on November 03, 2008 (boomark / email).